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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8 Num. 06
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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STATEMENT OF PLAINTIFF TERRY K. REED
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June 3, 1996
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RE: LRC 94-634
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REED v. YOUNG, et al.
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On July 5, 1991, one month shy of 5 years ago, my wife Janis and
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I mustered up the courage to register ourselves as plaintiffs in
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a civil law suit that we knew was seeded with political land
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mines. That original lawsuit, LRC 91-414, filed in federal court
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in Little Rock, Arkansas, and later to evolve into case number
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LRC 94-634, has transformed into an all-consuming endeavor, for
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not only Janis and me, our team of lawyers, but many concerned
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American citizens as well.
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We knew all along, as well did Little Rock Federal District Judge
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George Howard, Jr., that this case was not only about the
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violation of our civil rights, but carried with it the burden of
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re-educating the Court, the jury, and the American people about a
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painful period known in the annals of history as Iran-Contra.
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Slowly but surely, we and our legal team have been penetrating
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layer upon layer of government disinformation created for the
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sole purpose of preventing the truth to surface concerning the
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Reagan Administration's efforts to assist the Nicaraguan Contras
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in Arkansas. The Executive branch's by-passing of congressional
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restraints designed to prohibit or restrict military aid to the
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Contras through the law known as the Boland Amendment was in
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great part carried out on Arkansas soil with the full knowledge
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and complicity of our now-sitting President, Bill Clinton.
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Some of the CIA's activities which took place at Bill Clinton's
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Mena, Arkansas were patriotically driven and justified. Other
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activities, however, those which included the importation of
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cocaine and money laundering, can never be justified in the
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domain of the public. For this reason, there has been a
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concerted and bi-partisan effort to keep the subject matter known
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as MENA from becoming legitimized through the court process.
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Judge Howard's court has at times condoned our efforts to amass
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non-partisan evidence to not only prove our case, but to also
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re-write history and do what Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh
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either feared or failed to do after conducting a $40 million
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investigation: to tell the truth about the CIA's activities in
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Mena, Arkansas in the mid-1980s.
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To begin, let me recap our motivations for suing Raymond (Buddy)
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Young, then a captain with the Arkansas State Police and serving
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as Bill Clinton's gubernatorial chief of security. Young is now
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the director of Region 6 of the Federal Emergency Management
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Authority (FEMA) and based at Denton, Texas. From his position
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at FEMA he still finds time to protect Bill Clinton by
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threatening former Clinton bodyguards whenever they come forward
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with evidence which may embarrass the President or hint of
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wrong-doing.
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We felt then, as we feel now, that Mr. Young was a dangerous and
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unethical man who should never have been allowed to wear a badge.
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Yet, there he was in 1987, officing out of the Governor's
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mansion, drawing from the resources of the state of Arkansas, and
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behaving as any modern day crime family "enforcer" as he provided
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"security" for Arkansas' first family, Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea
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Clinton.
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Providing security: what does this encompass? That is what this
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case was destined to expose. Does it include destroying the
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lives of people who innocently become a political liability to
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powerful politicians, namely his boss, Bill Clinton?
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Well, the senior federal judge in Wichita, Kansas, Frank G.
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Theis, ruled in 1990 that these "security services" included at
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least the orchestration of phony criminal indictments against
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myself and Janis. The question is, why? We wanted to answer
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that question in Judge Howard's court. We already knew the
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answer. I had worked at the Mena airport and could connect
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prominent Arkansan power brokers and politicians to some very
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nefarious activity. Simply said: Janice and I were liabilities
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and had to be dealt with.
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As Judge Theis clearly saw, Young was not a solo actor as he
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conducted the despicable deed of trying to wrongfully and
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illegally cause innocent people to be incarcerated or killed.
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Theis concluded that Young had at least one accomplice, Tommy Lee
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Baker, of Little Rock, Arkansas, another former Arkansas State
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cop and sometimes private detective. Mr. Baker now sells alcohol
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to some of Little Rock's lower socio-economic groups through his
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liquor store on East 9th Street.
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Judge Theis, the senior federal judge for the 10th circuit
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district, had witnessed Young and Baker shuffling through his
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court room on more than one occasion between 1988 and 1990 as
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they emerged as the star witnesses in a U.S. Government
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prosecution designed to imprison Janis and myself for 20 years
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each -- for a crime we knew absolutely nothing about.
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Yet, Young and Baker, through their own perjurous lips, and
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manufactured material evidence, had convinced a Kansas U.S.
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Attorney that Janis and I were drug smuggling airplane thieves
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who were so "armed and dangerous" that we and our young children
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could have been shot on sight by any overly wary or trigger-happy
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law enforcement officer. Young, by his own admission, fabricated
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and authored a criminal profile that presented us as a modern day
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Bonnie and Clyde.
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But miraculously, by November, 1990, through two and one half
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years of effort, a lot of money, and a little bit of luck, Janis
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and I and our criminal defense lawyers were able to set the
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record straight in Judge Theis' courtroom. The judge exonerated
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us of *all* alleged criminal wrong-doing by finding me "not
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guilty" and at the same time lashed out at the
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government-embraced accusers. In the judge's own written words,
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sworn statements made by both Baker and Young were "made with at
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least reckless disregard for the truth."
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On my day of judgement, November 9, 1990, when I was acquitted, I
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quietly vowed to bring Buddy Young and Tommy Baker to justice --
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to expose them for the dregs that they are -- simply bad cops
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hiding behind tarnished badges and taking instructions from
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corrupt power-brokers and politicians who likewise should be
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prosecuted and forced from office to an awaiting prison cell.
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But that is not going to happen in Judge Howard's courtroom, and
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not through the five years of sweat and effort that Janis and I
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have devoted to this uphill and horrendously expensive legal
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exercise.
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Judge Howard, for reasons unexplained but clearly understood, has
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decided to protect these scoundrels, and in so doing protect
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those who assigned Young and Baker their "targets". In recent
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months Judge Howard has gutted our lawsuit and in the process has
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exposed the strings to which he is attached -- strings that are
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obviously being pulled from Washington, and more significantly,
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the White House.
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So who is Judge Howard protecting? I can't fathom it would be
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the enemies of civil liberties like Young and Baker. Why is a
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federal judge, who up until recently appeared to be so
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sympathetic with civil rights issues, ordering me to *not* put on
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the evidence we have amassed that can clearly prove WHO was
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instructing Young and Baker to violate our civil rights?
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The judge, by his own order, has specifically forbidden me to
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introduce the following evidence, evidence my lawyers desperately
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need to prove motive on behalf of Young and Baker and other
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unnamed co-conspirators.
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ORDER
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Pending before the Court is defendants' December 4th motion
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in limine to exclude the following matters: ....... These
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general areas will be referred to as the "Mena" evidence or
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documents.
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.......Even if the Court were to find that the complaint
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adequately states sufficient facts to make the
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allegations....... relevant to the alleged overt actions of
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these defendants, the probative value is substantially
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outweighed by the dangers of unfair prejudice, confusion of
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issues, the potential for misleading of the jury and
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considerations of undue delay and waste of time. The
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following description will control:
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Any reference to the plaintiffs' participation in programs,
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operations or missions sponsored by the Federal Bureau of
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Investigation or the Central Intelligence Agency or any other
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agency of the United States government, covert or otherwise,
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as well as any organization sponsored by or aligned with the
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United States government specifically including, but not
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limited to, any programs, operations or missions conducted in
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southwest Arkansas regarding the training of Nicaraguan
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nationals, the funding and support for any factions involved
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in the Nicaraguan conflict and any contact or communications
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with operatives or officials of the above-named agencies or
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organizations. Any reference to President or Governor Bill
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Clinton and/or Hillary Clinton and the Mena or Nella
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Airports. Any references to Barry Seale [sic] and any
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alleged drug smuggling operation or other references to the
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Mena and Nella Airports, or to a business relationship of
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Barry Seale [sic] and Dan Lasater, Lasater and Company and
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the Arkansas Development and Finance Authority (ADFA) and
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ADFA's former Director, Bob Nash.
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.......IT IS SO ORDERED THIS 8th day of March, 1996.
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George Howard, Jr. [signed]
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United States District Judge
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Judge Howard, through his own order, has exposed himself.
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Unwittingly, he and his integrity have now been compromised.
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By dissecting his order, one can clearly see two things.
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1. Judge Howard is eliminating evidence that he has not yet
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even seen. Most of our 110 witnesses were not deposed prior to
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trial. The judge, and even worse, the defendants, don't know
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what our witnesses would say on the stand... and that's the
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problem, isn't it? Heaven forbid the unadulterated and
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unedited and unrehearsed and uncensored truth spill out within
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the walls of a federal court house.
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2. Judge Howard is protecting people and government agencies
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not even named in the lawsuit. This is abundantly clear when
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one notes the names of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Dan
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Lasater, Bob Nash, and the Arkansas state agency known as ADFA.
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Bill, Hillary, Dan, Bob and ADFA are not defendants in the
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suit. One can only conclude from this judge's bizarre behavior
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that there has been wrongful, unethical, and illegal
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communication between the judge and the White House.
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Otherwise, these names wouldn't appear in the Order --
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especially that of Bob Nash. Bob Nash has never been
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officially accused of any wrong doing, although I have
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knowledge of same, and this would come out in court. And where
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is Bob Nash? He's in the White House -- Director of Personnel.
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As a former U.S. Air Force intelligence professional, I am
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making the following observation: this Democrat appointed
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judge is running interference for Bill Clinton in this election
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year. Mena will not be *allowed* to become a political issue
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in the 1996 race for the Presidency. Judge Howard has been
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appointed to be our road block to justice. At the same time he
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is cleverly putting Janis, me and my lawyers in a suicidal
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posture. We can go to trial, we just cannot put on our
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evidence.
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And speaking of suicide, imagine the forces that are causing
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judge Howard to fall on his sword. When this is over, surely he
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will have no judicial integrity or respect. But I guess that is
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a price one pays when one is securely employed for life.
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And what was the judge's response when my law team filed a 20
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page motion on April 23, 1996 giving him the alternatives to:
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1. Reconsider his March 8th gag order, or
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2. Hear oral arguments on our evidentiary dispute, or
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3. Allow us to appeal this evidentiary dispute to the 8th
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Circuit Court of Appeals prior to trial
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His succinct response was
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ORDER
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Plaintiffs' April 23rd motion for reconsideration and
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clarification or, alternatively, for leave to file interlocutory
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appeal (#55) is denied for the reasons contained in the March 8th
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order and defendants' May 6th response.
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.......IT IS SO ORDERED THIS 10th day of May, 1996.
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George Howard, Jr. [signed]
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United States District Judge
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Devastation does not come close to describing our feelings.
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After years of dragging this case through the federal civil
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justice system, Judge Howard has manipulated us into the
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following legal posture: we can go to court but we cannot put on
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critical evidence, therefore we will lose. That loss, even
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though we could appeal it (and the appeal would consume at
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minimum another year of our lives and tens of thousands more
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dollars), will be interpreted by the Clinton spin doctors as a
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victory. There will be no mention of the fact our hands were
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tied, and our mouths were gagged, and the so-called "trial" was a
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travesty of justice. They will attempt to convince the media, at
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a critical point in the election process, that Mena is a figment
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of my imagination, even though the Mena evidence was not allowed
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to be presented in court.
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Proudly being a former member of the U.S. armed services, I was
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trained to win wars, not lose them. I refuse to repeat my
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Vietnam experience and not be *allowed* to win.
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When we rather naively filed the original complaint, our sons
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were ages 4, 6, and 8. They are now 9, 11, and 13, and have
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little or no memory of their parents not being consumed in the
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efforts to properly litigate this case. For the sake of our
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children, and the sanity of our family unit, we are making a very
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difficult and painful decision.
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Ruefully, after 59 months of a stressful, tumultuous and at times
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triumphant struggle, we are being forced to conclude that the
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subject of Mena will never be presented within the confines of a
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federal court room, and that Janis and I will not see justice
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served. Instead, we now cynically view the federal court house
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in Little Rock as a monument to federal corruption, and a slap in
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the face to all Americans who believe in the separation of powers
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provided under the Constitution.
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With tears in our eyes, lumps in our throats, and knots in our
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stomachs, we are instructing our attorneys to non-suit this case.
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To the hundreds of people who directly participated in our
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struggle, we would like to remind them of the many victories
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achieved throughout the course of our ordeal. In many ways we
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did win -- at least in the court of public opinion. Our numerous
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depositions, which were funded in great part by public
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contributions, have clearly established the fact that the CIA's
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activities at Mena, Arkansas *did* take place, and that prominent
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politicians from both parties either were complicit in the
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illegal activities that swirled around this covert operation, or
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even worse, were directly involved or benefited.
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I would like to think that my personal hero, Harry S. Truman,
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would be proud of our accomplishments, even in the face of
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overwhelming odds. At times of strife he was encouraged by the
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average citizen to "Give 'em hell, Harry!" I too have heard
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voices who backed me shout, "Give 'em hell, Terry!" I hope I've
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lived up to the task.
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And to Raymond (Buddy) Young, Tommy Lee Baker, and those working
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with the Arkansas political establishment who have successfully
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undermined my efforts to take this material to trial, I will now
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quote from another hero of mine, Douglas McArthur: "I will
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return."
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Terry K. Reed [signed] 3 Jun 96
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